Posting this since quite a bit has changed since I last posted about this on !technology@lemmy.world.
Here’s a rough breakdown of the current status:
- shared Ventoy components: build and seem to work, needs more testing
- grub / menu - builds
- EDK II apps / UEFI chainloader and more - builds
- iPXE / BIOS chainloader - builds, with fixes for newer toolchains
- ISO9660 and UDF drivers - TODO
- Ventoy CPIO / Linux ramdisk: builds; I deemed musl xzcat unneeded, so I skipped it; needs more testing
- wimboot / Windows chainloader (?) - stalled, I lack the necessary knowledge to work on it
- geom-ventoy / FreeBSD disk mapping kernel module - is being worked on, slowly; not ready for testing
- anything else is a TODO
This should be enough to boot Linux with just what’s built manually, but I haven’t tried that yet.
Secure Boot is just done by using a pre-built bypass package. I’ll deal with that later.
Having more people testing this would be nice. :)
Cheers
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Much better
The current problem with ventoy is that proprietary blobs are essentially an unauditable possible security backdoor.
This product is entirely proprietary, including the hardware, and even worse.
All flash drives are proprietary as well what’s the difference
They are not explicitly designed to boot ISO’s?
Also, price. I’m not gonna pay quadruple the price for something that can be done entirely in software.
Ventoy does not emulate a CDROM it just boots it via grub
Interesting. Sadly it only supports FAT32, NTFS and EXFAT with no Linux filesystems.
And Ventoy is free. It’s hard to argue with free.
Yeah, bought the st300 after having repeated issues with ventoy not properly mounting disk images causing multiple Linux distro installs to fail. My st300 might be one of my best investments as a technician just for how seamless and simple it is to use.